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Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2014, Article ID 373674, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/373674
Research Article

Numerical Study of Membrane Configurations

Luka Mesarec,1 Miha Fošnarič,1 Samo Penič,1 Veronika Kralj Iglič,1,2 Samo Kralj,3,4 Wojciech Góźdź,5 and Aleš Iglič1

1Laboratory of Biophysics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Zdravstvena 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
3Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška Cesta 160, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
4Jožef Stefan Institute, P.O. Box 3000, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
5Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland

Received 3 August 2014; Accepted 6 October 2014; Published 30 November 2014

Academic Editor: George Cordoyiannis

Copyright © 2014 Luka Mesarec et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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